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    "id": 305015,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/305015/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to second this Bill. The Finance Bill is best interrogated at Committee Stage because this is about taxation. However, I want to thank the Minister for pledging efficiency and fairness in tax collection or levying taxes and, more importantly, in dispute resolutions that take too long to resolve. I want to urge the Minister, and encourage hon. Midiwo to let him listen, to reconsider the lowering of taxes on mitumba . In fact, I want to encourage him to support the local cotton industry by giving a decisive decision on mitumba altogether. Questions regularly asked include tax refunds. The process of refunding tax remissions, particularly Value Added Tax (VAT) raises many questions. I get letters from all manner of business people who keep asking about this and I think the Minister should streamline this so that we have a proper system where investors know that when you put in this and there is a refund, it comes in this manner and at what time so that it is not an issue that continues to cloud our investment climate. I also want to encourage the Minister to clarify the issue of who and where he will be taxing the church. I agree with him that there are certain churches in this country that are commercial enterprises. These churches are owned by individuals. We know them and we need not say it. When a person sets up a church and fraudulently holds himself out as a miracle performer and charges for it, that becomes a commercial enterprise bordering on crime because it is a misrepresentation to begin with. The income must be"
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